SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 1166
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CASKEY.
Read 1st time January 27, 2004, and ordered printed.
Read 2nd time February 4, 2004, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence.
Reported from the Committee March 1, 2004, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Removed from the Consent Calendar March 4, 2004.
Re-reported from the Committee March 18, 2004, with recommendation that the bill do pass.
Taken up for Perfection April 8, 2004. Bill declared Perfected and Ordered Printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
4276S.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 49.272, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to civil fines for certain misdemeanors, with penalty provisions.
Section A. Section 49.272, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 49.272, to read as follows:
49.272. The county commission of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government and with more than one hundred thirty-five thousand four hundred but less than one hundred thirty-five thousand five hundred inhabitants, and in any county of the first classification with more than eighty-two thousand but less than eighty-two thousand one hundred inhabitants which has an appointed county counselor and which adopts or has adopted rules, regulations or ordinances under authority of a statute which prescribes or authorizes a violation of such rules, regulations or ordinances to be a misdemeanor punishable as provided by law, may by rule, regulation or ordinance impose a civil fine not to exceed one thousand dollars for each violation. Any fines imposed and collected under such rules, regulations or ordinances shall be payable to the county general fund to be used to pay for the cost of enforcement of such rules, regulations or ordinances.